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Old June 15th, 2007  
Fish Keeper
 
Looking for setup advice, suggestions or comments. PLEASE

I have a 55 gal. Marine tank that has been going for about 6 months now. I have had a few battles as you may have read from my earlier posts. I have pretty well conquered those and the tank is looking GREAT. So, I thought it was time to fine tune my setup. If there is anything I am missing from this setup let me know. If you have questions about my setup let me know. If you think I am overdoing it let me know. What I am trying to say here is PLEASE tell me what you think.

Here's the setup.

60 lbs of arogonite bed (app. 2 to 3 inch layer)
65 lbs of live rock
30 nassarious snails
3 Turbo Grazer snails
1 Lunare Wrasse who is getting a home of his own. (research before you buy. They eat snails. Nassarious Snails come out at night and the Wrasse hides at
night so, so far so good.)
2 Rena Filstar XP2 canister filters. 300 GPH each
canister 1
2 densities of foam filter
200 mL of Purigen by Seachem
200 mL os SeaGel by Seachem
1 Micro Filter pad.
canister 2
1 L Matrix by Seachem
1 L deNitrator by Seachem
1 Micro filter pad.
1 AquaC Remora Skimmer w/ PreSkimmer box filled with BioStar media 350 GPH
1 Current USA Orbit light fixture with 2 65W PCflourescents, 2 65W Actinics, and 4 white LED "lunar lights" Totaling 260W of light. Maybe a little to big?
1 300W Stealth heater.
1 ZooMed Power Sweep powerhead 275 GPH

I use Seachem for all my additives and salt mix also.
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Old June 15th, 2007  
Fish Master
 
Re: Looking for setup advice, suggestions or comments. PLEASE

Sounds good to me. Lights not too much at all. Are you keeping the foam clean in your filters, I've read that if you don't they can raise your nitrates?

What is Purigen by seachem
seagel by seachem
matrix by seachem
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Old June 15th, 2007  
Fish Keeper
 
Re: Looking for setup advice, suggestions or comments. PLEASE

Quote:
Originally Posted by atmmachine
Sounds good to me.* Lights not too much at all.* Are you keeping the foam clean in your filters, I've read that if you don't they can raise your nitrates?

What is Purigen by seachem
seagel by seachem
matrix by seachem
Purigen is a Charcoal replacement that is rechargeable. Works great in UnPhosphate buffered Fresh and in Marine.
Seagel is a Charcoal PhosGuard Blend. Especially good for when I recharge the Purigen.
Matrix is a porous Biofilter media. It is the first stage in my Biological filter. Stage 2 is the deNitrator. A small porous media for anaerobic bacteria to thrive.

I use Seachem for everything.
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